Mounira Al Solh (b. 1978, Lebanon, lives and works between Beirut and Amsterdam) is a visual artist. Her practice encompasses video, installations, painting and drawing, text, embroidery, and performative gestures. Irony and self-reflection are central strategies in her work, which explores feminist issues, traces patterns of micro-history, bears witness to the impact of conflict and displacement, is socially engaged, and at the same time, can be politically and poetically escapist. Her practice uses oral documentation, multidisciplinary collaboration, and wordplay to explore themes of memory and loss. Driven by acts of sharing and storytelling, change, and resistance, Al Solh aims to create a sensory language that challenges nationality and faith.
Mounira Al Solh studied painting at the Lebanese University of Beirut (1998-2001) and fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (2003-2006). In 2007-2008, she was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Al Solh’s work has been exhibited at, among others, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), The Art Institute of Chicago, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), as well as at dOCUMENTA 14 (Kassel) and the Sharjah Biennale (2023). In 2024, Al Solh will represent Lebanon at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Ammodo supported the work of Mounira Al Solh through documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, Positions at the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven and in 2025 Ammodo supports her solo exhibition at the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht.
